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Resources & Volunteer Opportunities on Race, Racism, and How to be an Anti-Racist
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Resources & Volunteer Opportunities on Race, Racism, and How to be an Anti-Racist
July 23, 2020
Winston & Strawn is committed to making lasting and successful changes to our firm, our communities, and our society at large in pursuit of racial justice and equality. Below is a list of volunteer opportunities that facilitate anti-racism, as well as information on supporting Black-owned restaurants and businesses.
Click here for a comprehensive list of resources on race, anti-racism, and allyship. It includes resources for those who are negatively impacted by racism, as well as resources for those who want to practice anti-racism and support diverse individuals and communities.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Grassroots Law Project – Help respond to the crisis of state-sanctioned racial violence by joining this team of grassroots organizers and legal experts committed to transforming the American criminal legal system. Volunteering opportunities include:
- Responding to questions via email and social media
- Recruiting other volunteers via text, calls, and social media
- Training other volunteers and managing volunteer teams
- Undertaking in-depth research assignments to gather critical information supporting their campaigns, projects, and policy proposals
EmbraceRace – Help this multicultural network grow and support their mission to address the challenges that race poses to our children, families, and communities. Volunteering opportunities include:
- Research – Taking surveys, participating in focus groups, playing online games, and more as needed (varies per project)
- Outreach and Communications – Expanding their social media audiences and email list, publicizing, and increasing use of new resources
- Media Relations – Helping draw media attention to their work and finding good opportunities to publish their articles and op-eds
- Interviewing and Storytelling – Helping ramp up their audio storytelling initiative, interviewing EmbraceRace community members, and writing their personal stories about race and children
- Community Building – Helping design, organize, and/or support constructive online discussions about race, children, and raising children
- Fundraising – Helping diversify and strengthen their revenue streams with respect to foundations, major donors, “small” donors, earned revenue, and/or corporate funding
VOTER REGISTRATION
U.S. Election Assistance Commission – Be an election worker! Election workers are essential to ensuring that elections are a success
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
- Sign Amnesty International’s petition to tell Congress to advance the Peace Act to restrict the use of deadly force by police
- Donate your travel points to organizations who need to transport organizers, lawyers, and those in need
SUPPORT LOCAL, BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES AND RESTAURANTS
- Find your local, Black-owned restaurants with the EatOkra app
UNITED STATES LOCAL OPPORTUNITIES
CHARLOTTE
- Charlotte Observer list of local Black-owned businesses
- Charlotte Agenda list of local Black-owned businesses
- Support local and/or Black-owned bookstores like Charlotte’s Shelves Bookstore
- Check out Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s staff-curated Black Lives Matter reading list
CHICAGO
DALLAS
HOUSTON
LOS ANGELES
NEW YORK
SAN FRANCISCO
- List of local, Black-owned businesses
- There’s never been a better time to support Oakland’s Marcus Books, the oldest independent Black-owned bookstore in the U.S.
- The San Francisco Public Library has a list of books for kids to learn about race and racism
SILICON VALLEY
WASHINGTON, D.C.